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Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions - Unknown, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Peter Dronke
Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions
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Two newly edited and translated versions of the Byzantium epic, Digenis Akritis: one from the Grottaferrata monastery near Rome, the other from the Escorial library in Spain.
Two newly edited and translated versions of the Byzantium epic, Digenis Akritis: one from the Grottaferrata monastery near Rome, the other from the Escorial library in Spain.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780521397766 (0521397766)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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This compares unfavorably with Gilgamesh. The cultures that produced them were very different of course but Digenis Akritis just doesn't attain the same kind of universality as the other epic. The story is also more episodic. The subtitle to my edition is awesome though "The Two Blood Border Lord...
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